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Each April 1st, practical jokers get their kicks pulling the wool over people's eyes. There are little white lies, cunning schemes and elaborate hoaxes. Pranksters are alive and well in music, too. Test your wits with these musical smart alecks who run the gamut from clever clowns to serious scam artists. Score high and feel a surge of superiority. Score low and fancy yourself a true April fool. <div class="fullattribution">Copyright 2015 NPR.Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:43:00 +0000Tom Huizenga62914 at http://northernpublicradio.orgCan You Name That Musical Prank?A Young Composer's Evening Prayers For Troubled Timeshttp://northernpublicradio.org/post/young-composers-evening-prayers-troubled-times
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoi914oFewQ</p>Sat, 28 Mar 2015 21:24:00 +0000NPR Staff62802 at http://northernpublicradio.orgA Young Composer's Evening Prayers For Troubled TimesAnonymous 4 With Bruce Molsky: Tiny Desk Concerthttp://northernpublicradio.org/post/anonymous-4-bruce-molsky-tiny-desk-concert
It was December 1990 — more than a year before the first <a href="http://www.npr.org/artists/15182954/anonymous-4" target="_blank">Anonymous 4</a> album was released — when NPR invited four slightly shy women into our studio to sing 13th-century Christmas music. Back then, we already knew the manifold beauty of their sound, its purity and accuracy, was something unique.<p>Now, some 25 years and 21 albums later, the a cappella vocal quartet is calling it quits at the end of 2015.Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:45:00 +0000Tom Huizenga62797 at http://northernpublicradio.orgAnonymous 4 With Bruce Molsky: Tiny Desk ConcertThis Weekend On `Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!'http://northernpublicradio.org/post/weekend-wait-waitdont-tell-me-0
<p></p><p></p><p>Does anybody remember the days when people on TV had to be nice, honest people you could root for? After seven seasons of the groundbreaking TV show <em>Mad Men</em>, neither do we.</p><p>The final season of the show is about to launch and so we've invited <em>Mad Men </em>creator Matt Weiner to play a game called "Glad Men" — three questions about people who try to cheer other people up. We'll quiz him on the lives of a success coach, a motivational speaker and a happiness guru.</p><p>Hear <em>Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me! </em>Saturday at 10:00 a.m. and Sunday at 1:00 p.m.</p>Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:07:50 +0000WNIJ62796 at http://northernpublicradio.orgThis Weekend On `Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!'Young String Quartet Likes 'To Mix It Up'http://northernpublicradio.org/post/young-string-quartet-likes-mix-it
<p>This weekend, the <a href="http://www.amphionquartet.com/">Amphion String Quartet</a> joins with clarinetist <a href="http://www.davidshifrin.com">David Shifrin</a> for a concert at the <a href="http://www.coronadopac.org/">Coronado Performing Arts Center</a> in Rockford.</p>Fri, 27 Mar 2015 11:21:00 +0000Guy Stephens62718 at http://northernpublicradio.orgYoung String Quartet Likes 'To Mix It Up'The Sensuous Radical: Pierre Boulez at 90http://northernpublicradio.org/post/sensuous-radical-pierre-boulez-90
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HLM1hHXx8Y</p><p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS82nF85_gA</p><p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTstGUUniy4</p><p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KD39Vt7VFk</p>Thu, 26 Mar 2015 16:49:00 +0000Tom Huizenga62692 at http://northernpublicradio.orgThe Sensuous Radical: Pierre Boulez at 90Black Plague Stage For Dark Comedyhttp://northernpublicradio.org/post/black-plague-stage-dark-comedy
<p>The <a href="http://www.niu.edu/theatre/">NIU School of Theatre and Dance</a> opens its production of British playwright Peter Barnes’ <a href="http://www.niusotd.com/">‘Red Noses’ </a>Thursday night , March 26, at Huntley Middle School in DeKalb. &nbsp;The play, set at a time the Black Death was killing millions of people in medieval Europe, is a comedy.&nbsp;</p>Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:19:00 +0000Guy Stephens62659 at http://northernpublicradio.orgBlack Plague Stage For Dark ComedyCross The Arctic With The Kronos Quartethttp://northernpublicradio.org/post/cross-arctic-kronos-quartet
Dogs barking, wind howling, ice crunching, then the sudden "ch-ch-ch-ch" of a sawing beat: That's composer <a href="https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/37652" target="_blank">Derek Charke</a>'s opening salvo in his transporting piece <em>Cercle du Nord III</em>.<p>Charke wrote this piece in 2005 for the <a href="http://www.npr.org/artists/14983141/kronos-quartet">Kronos Quartet</a>, who premiered it the following year.Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:56:00 +0000Anastasia Tsioulcas 62622 at http://northernpublicradio.orgCross The Arctic With The Kronos QuartetReview: Missy Mazzoli, 'Vespers For A New Dark Age'http://northernpublicradio.org/post/first-listen-missy-mazzoli-vespers-new-dark-age
Can robots think and feel?Mon, 23 Mar 2015 03:30:00 +0000editor62484 at http://northernpublicradio.orgReview: Missy Mazzoli, 'Vespers For A New Dark Age'This Weekend On `Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!'http://northernpublicradio.org/post/weekend-wait-waitdont-tell-me
<p></p><p></p><p>For his latest book, <em>The Whites,</em> novelist Richard Price decided to use a pseudonym: Harry Brandt. (In retrospect he decided that was a bad idea: "It was going to be different from my other books and I wanted to signal that," he <a href="http://www.npr.org/2015/02/17/385765453/in-richard-prices-new-novel-haunted-cops-and-cases-they-couldnt-close" target="_blank">told </a><em>Fresh Air, </em>but by the time he realized it was just "another damn book by me" it was too late to withdraw the pen name.)</p>Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:41:37 +0000WNIJ62451 at http://northernpublicradio.orgThis Weekend On `Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!'